Re: SOAP/XML Protocol and filtering, etc.

• From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
• Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 08:49:33 -0400
• To: "Dick Brooks" <dick@8760.com>
• cc: moore@cs.utk.edu, "Henrik Frystyk Nielsen" <henrikn@microsoft.com>, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@akamai.com>, ietf@ietf.org, xml-dist-app@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200105081249.IAA26507@astro.cs.utk.edu>

> The message broker design pattern needs "something" outside the message
> payload (e.g. HTTP or MIME headers) to facilitate dispatch functions. The
> alternative requires message brokers to have intimate knowledge of each 
> message payload.

far better for the SOAP-specific message broker to have intimate knowledge
of the SOAP-specific payload, than to have the SOAP-specific message broker
to have intimate knowledge of the HTTP-specific request header.

also, far better for the SOAP-specific dispatching tags to be part
of the SOAP-specific payload which is supposed to be independent of the
protocol being used as a substrate for SOAP, than to have to supply this
dispatching tag in a different way for every substrate protocol.

Keith

Received on Tuesday, 8 May 2001 08:49:45 UTC